Good
As it should be. When I graduated college, min wage was $8 and rent was like 1k a month to live in a really rough area in one of the shittier cities.
“Good news, sir! Ever since the pandemic the value of everything has gone up…”
“…including the value of labor”
“My wage slaves! Curse them for wanting a better paycheck!”
Damn, business owners will have to work instead of play golf and wrack up harassment lawsuits.
It’s fine, they can still golf all they want so long as they dial back on the harassment lawsuits by about 10%.
“Business owners take risks that’s why they should be paid a lot of money”
“Of course minimum wage shouldn’t be higher, then the business owner can’t afford to run their business”
“Of course the business owner should be compensated! They couldn’t know the market would crash, it would be unfair to punish them for events of chance!”
It’s wild how people think it’s a divine right to own a business where you can underpay workers.
I thought this was UlyssesT for a moment
That’s either a compliment or an insult and there’s no real way to know
Inside of you are two UylessesTs
this could get messy
Economists are to capitalism what priests were to feudalism
buckling up for Economy Crashed Because Wages Too High headlines in 2025
I made 26 an hour my first year working as an RN at a hospital, beyond the fact that I’ve been blacklisted at my local hospitals because the first one was a transphobic piece of shit, I don’t even want to go back anymore, I can work at a nursing home with less interstaff drama, less stress, and less risk to my own health while making more than the hospitals pay even after they had to jump pay up 10+ an hour just to get some nurses back.
Salute to the glorious socialist state of CCCalifornia for literally executing the petty bourgeoise by creating a minimum wage that is almost enough to scrape by on
Too fucking bad, you don’t get to have people support your “dreams” of owning a restaurant by working for you on poverty wages you greedy fuck
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paying your bills and feeding your family shouldnt’ be dependent on fucking tips. People regularly don’t tip just because they are dumb fuck lead poisoned assholes.
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but when you have nights that you pull in $500+ in tips
this option is only available to extremely young, attractive, outgoing, neurotypical, socially skilled individuals. why exactly should only they get a living wage?
Also, tips aren’t even close to that high
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“Most people are in the in-group, so it doesn’t make any sense to have a society that works for anyone else”
Careful the mask is slipping
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Servers are only about 20-30% of staffing so I’m not sure what your point is here other than to imply people working in fast food are lazy and if they were on that grind set they would just mosey on over to a 4 star restaurant that definitely doesn’t require 5 years experience serving at another 4 star restaurant.
People working fast food work way harder than servers or bartenders and they also work way harder than cooks in a sit down place, all of those people work really fucking hard, I’m a cook, I know, but the average McDonalds employee is all three at once and the volume is at a level I can’t even understand dealing with. There isnt a decent chef on earth who would say they work harder thsn a fast food worker, I’ve done fine to high midscale my whole time along with extremely fancy catering and everyone doing that stuff even respects the absolute hell out of fast food workers. As I posted above, I’d rather teach a fast food worker how to cook good good than tracj a fresh culinary student how to handle a busy service.
Employers who pay their employees less than a living wage absolutely deserve to get the most mediocre work possible from their employees. If you want to pay someone $10 an hour and schedule them 30 hours a week so they don’t get benefits then don’t come whining when they don’t give a fuck about your shitty business.
If you want exceptional work then pay exceptional wages.
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Your parents failed in raising you
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Stand on a highway with your shirt covering your face
holy shit go back to reddit you belong there
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Clearly you fucking don’t.
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Not a single, attractive person makes that comment.
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Why are all libs also transphobes? Their pronouns are right there, yet you misgender them anyway.
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I’m talking about saying they are your brother you fucking dolt. Funny thing is I knew you would try to do this dumbass obtuse-act. It’s incredible how you types are like kindergarten children.
“No you are the lib” lmao, are you actually in kindergarten ? Bigotry is the issue at hand when it is present. You misgendering a comrade makes it present. I know you guys have a hard time comprehending this, but politics isn’t aesthetics.
What’d they say, bc I just logged back on and now it’s gone 😔
cw for misgendering, obviously
We’re like brothers comrade!
As a fellow dedicated chef, I wish you a very The Mess.
Damn, he got removed by mod before I went the absolute fuck off on this idiot. I work high end stuff and have been blessed to never have had to work fast food and can very reasonably say those people work SO much harder than we do and we work really really hard. I couldn’t do it and no one should even have to, those conditions are nuts and kitchens aren’t a ballpark to begin with. If there’s a fast food gig on your resume I take it as a huge plus, if you can handle that, the stress aspect is already handled and the rest is learning how to cook. I’ve met plenty of people thst did culinary school before working any kitchen jobs and someone who is pure theory and full of themselves is way worse thsn someone who had grinded it out before but needs to learn how to food. Teaching people how to cook is esybessier thsn teaching people how to deal with kitchen bullshit.
$20 USD/hr is a pretty good wage gd. I’m sure you can’t afford to live in SF for that but I bet you’re probably able to gather some savings at least in a lot of the lesser towns with that.
you’re probably able to gather some savings
With a 40 hour week (rare in the industry) you’re on $40k, or ~$32k after taxes.
How much are you thinking someone is saving on $600 a week before paying for anything?
I have a $21/hr guarantee at my job in rural Ohio and it isn’t enough to cover my rent, student loans, car payments, and general living expenses. No idea how anyone is supposed to cut in on $20/hr in California.
national minimum wage would be like 25 if it kept pace with productivity since the 1970s
inflation pre-covid, no idea what the fuck it should be now. something like twice as much if it was on pace with executive plundering.Isn’t national minimum wage in the US $7.25? I don’t live in the US but I know y’all didn’t have 300% inflation in the past 4 years
They’re talking about the decoupling of productivity and wages in the late 70s. If wages had increased in line with productivity increases minimum wage would be like $28-30/hr. The highest minimum wage (adjusted for inflation) was in 1968 and would be about $15/hr today. The real theft is that we produce so much more surplus value than 40 years ago and receive none of it in compensation.
yeah, productivity. that’s what i get for posting tired
Yes but practically speaking for most wage work in CA workers have made a lot more than that (but not $20/hr) for many years. CA has a state minimum wage that is usually much higher than the federal.
The federal minimum wage represents a legal floor but it’s so low and never changes that it’s functionally meaningless.
It’s been 7.25 since 2009. From a quick google it says rent increases (what actually matters to minimum wage employees, not CPI) have outpaced inflation at about 9% increase per year. So, going with that, 7.25(1.09)^15 is about $26.41.
You need to add that 9% to the average rate of inflation, so this should actually be higher.
Edit: 7.25(1 + .02 + .09)^15 = 30.28 Edit: Misread
It was set at 7.25 in 2009 and was way under what it should’ve been at that time
20$ isn’t enough if we’re being honest
I didn’t say it was enough, but for a neoliberal hellhole it’s way higher than I would have imagined. A $20 USD/hr wage where I live would be a huge win for the left wing, and our cost of living isn’t appreciably different.
I barely make rent at 20
I live in SoCal and make just under $20 and I can’t afford an apartment within 100 miles of my workplace
“I support the free market.” … “No, not like that.”
I hate how these fuckers complain while poor people are suffering more than them.
“Waaaaaa I can’t use near slave labour to get rich off my shitty restaurant, waaaaaa”
Good. Fuck you.
Remember how the capitalist class kept blaming inflation on the meager COVID relief checks sent to individuals but conveniently overlooked the much larger amount given to small businesses? And how easy it was for them to fraudulently inflate the losses reported?
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